AdMonsters January 26, 2023 Confiant Catches Cookie Fishing Scheme: The Bad Actors of Black Friday Advertisers’ businesses boom yearly on Black Friday as they promote their annual sales. Last year, Black Friday saw another big boom — cookie stuffing — marking a sharp increase in fraudulent ad impressions. Read…
Read MoreAdMonsters January 20, 2023 HUMAN Discovers and Shuts Down Massive Ad Fraud Scheme Last year, advertisers spent over $327 billion targeting users as they engaged with popular mobile apps, but as HUMAN Security announced yesterday, a chunk of that spending went into the pockets of fraudsters who successfully launched…
Read MoreAdMonsters January 12, 2023 What is a Bot Market and How Can Publishers Fight Against Them? The battle for brand safety is on because bad actors are more creative than ever with their ad fraud tactics. It's time for clean sweeps of your sites because ad fraud and malvertising…
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Audio advertising is really taking off in the US. Podcast ad spend will surpass $2 billion in 2023, according to the IAB. Currently, podcasts account for nearly one-third of digital audio ad spend, and that projection will increase over time. We spoke with some ad tech professionals in the podcasting…
Read MoreAdMonsters January 6, 2023 That’s So AdMonsters: 6 Ways We Predict Ad Tech and Digital Media Will Evolve in 2023 Reflection is essential to moving into the new year, and the ad tech industry has much to reflect on from 2022. From the ad spend slowdown to potential federal…
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When it comes to CTV (and media in general), 2022 was not only about the re-emergence of life post-pandemic but also about figuring out where audiences will migrate and how to reach them. It was all about subscriber growth, total reach, and big numbers. Now the conversation is shifting because…
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Two seconds — this is the average attention span of visitors on a web page, and if the page doesn’t load within this time, readers start bouncing off. Increased page load time will turn into an increased bounce rate and decreased ad revenue, which is bad news for publishers. To tackle…
Read MoreAdMonsters December 29, 2022 Publishers Prove Resilient Through Industry Changes Each PubForum, an exclusive publisher-only Think Tank comes together to discuss the most pressing issues in ad tech. In Nashville, the common consensus was that thriving through this tough period was dependent upon how you choose to reach your…
Read MoreAdMonsters December 22, 2022 The Final Wrap-Up: Best of AdMonsters Wrapper 2022 Each week AdMonsters sends out the Wrapper–a series dedicated to analyzing a curation of ad tech news from around the world. Here's a look back at the top Wrappers of 2022. Read more. AdMonsters 2022 Rewind: The…
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Daily Yoga experienced a slowdown in subscriber rate and challenges evaluating performance after the IOS14 update. Since the brand monetizes through its premium subscription service, it needed to gain access to audiences likely to become subscribers. Daily Yoga found a solution by utilizing AppLovin’s AppDiscovery platform.
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